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Poorcastle, New Apocalypse Brews & Houndmouth

If you’re a music fan, you like to support local music and you love local craft beer, you should probably check out the Poorcastle festival on Saturday, July 6.

Poorcastle? Yes, it’s exactly what you think it is – a one-day music festival for those who either can’t (or won’t) pony up the crazy amount of money it costs to go to any of those other music festivals. Better yet, it’s a fundraiser for Crescent Hill Radio, whose mission is to support local and regional music. So, it’s 12 local/regional bands donating their time and talent to help support the community radio station that helps support their time and talent.

I feel dizzy.

Anyway, Poorcastle will be held at Apocalypse Brew Works, and head brewer Leah Dienes promises at least one new beer will be on tap for Poorcastle.

“There’s a Coco Stout in the fermentor right now,” she said. “Hopefully we’ll have Hefeweizen too.”

She describes the former as “an Oatmeal stout with cocoa nibs.” The Hefe, she added, would be a classic German Hefeweizen.

Speaking of local bands, New Albanian Brewing Company announced that another batch of Houndmouth, the delicious hoppy wheat ale that shares a name with a rising musical group from across the river in Indiana, will be brought out for a couple of events in New Albany this weekend and next. I tried Houndmouth only recently, and it’s currently one of my favorite local beers, a true summer classic.

Oh, and based on the couple of songs I’ve heard, the band isn’t bad either.